BioDigital
AcquiredFounded 2014 · 59 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
BioDigital operates the BioDigital Human, an interactive 3D software platform for visualizing human anatomy, physiology, disease, and treatment. It serves medical educators, clinical trainers, patient engagement teams, and health, medical, and life science organizations that embed customizable 3D visualizations into their digital channels, LMS, or curricula across web, mobile, and AR/VR.
Also known as Biodigital · BioDigital, Inc. · The BioDigital Human
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026BioDigital, Inc. is a New York-based software company behind the BioDigital Human, a cloud-based, interactive 3D platform for visualizing human anatomy, physiology, disease and treatment. The platform is frequently described as a "Google Maps for the Human Body": a medically accurate virtual map assembled from individually selectable anatomical structures, simulated health conditions and treatment models, together with tools for mapping and visualizing data. Content includes complete male and female anatomy, pediatric and regional models, system-level views, micro views, cross sections, origins and insertions, interactive procedures, prostheses and pharmacological and mechanism-of-action animations spanning gross, cellular and molecular levels.
The software is delivered through the browser using HTML standards rather than a game engine, and is available on desktop, mobile and in AR/VR, in eight languages. Users can embed 3D visualizations into a learning management system or other digital solution. Authoring is handled through Human Studio, which lets non-developers create custom views, guided anatomy tours, labels, descriptions and images, while Quiz Builder provides out-of-the-box and customizable 3D assessments. The company also offers professional services to model specific conditions and treatments for customers.
BioDigital is used in medical schools and education companies, at the point of care in hospitals for clinician-patient communication, and by pharmaceutical and medical device companies to explain treatments and procedures. In January 2025 the company was acquired by Anatomage Inc.; per the acquisition announcement, BioDigital's cloud software and its customer base in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, hospitals and publishing complement Anatomage's physical Table and Tablet products and educational market.
Founding story
BioDigital began as a consulting business in 2002 and was formally founded in 2013. Co-founders Frank Sculli and John Qualter built the technology by combining advances in CAD, HTML5 and WebGL to render an interactive, medically accurate 3D human body inside a web browser, aiming to replace textbook illustrations and plastic models. According to Sculli, the company had been working on the use of 3D technology to simplify health concepts in some form for roughly a decade before its 2013 Series A, and native browser support for the technology plus cloud and API-based delivery provided the missing piece to bring a virtual body explorer to the public.
Business model
BioDigital licenses a cloud-based 3D visualization platform to organizations, which embed or publish its anatomy, condition and treatment models across their own digital channels, learning management systems, curricula and clinical workflows. A free tier is offered to individuals, alongside premium paid plans for individuals and paid plans for businesses, schools and organizations; a professional services team also builds custom visualizations of specific conditions and treatments for customers. Business plans are sold via demo requests, and school plans are sold to academic institutions rather than directly to individual students.
Revenue comes from subscriptions and licensing: a free Personal plan with limited model views and storage, a paid Personal Plus upgrade reported at $19.99 per year, premium subscriptions unlocking advanced tools, school and organizational plans, and business licensing of the platform and toolkits, supplemented by professional services for custom visualization work.
Traction
Public materials report more than 5 million students, teachers, clinicians and professionals using the platform, over 1,000 mapped health conditions, over 100 million health conversations powered per year, and 96% of users agreeing the visualization software helped them better understand information presented. At the time of the 2013 Series A, the company reported over 1 million members and use by students in more than 2,500 schools. The platform is integrated with educational offerings including Wolters Kluwer's Lippincott solutions.
Latest developments
In January 2025, Anatomage Inc. announced its acquisition of BioDigital; co-founder Frank Sculli said the combined companies would offer a more comprehensive solution for modernizing health education, and Anatomage CEO Jack Choi cited synergy between BioDigital's cloud-based medical education solution and Anatomage's Table and Tablet hardware business. Product updates reported as of 2024 include AI-powered search for 3D content, a Gross Anatomy Lab in virtual reality, Expert Collections of specialized anatomy content, and monthly additions of new procedure and condition models. The company has also released a redesigned version of Human Studio with an updated interface and workflows.
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Market position
BioDigital describes its platform as market leading for creating and publishing interactive 3D anatomy, condition and treatment content, and reports use at top medical schools, in hospitals at the point of care, and by pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Independent coverage characterized it as the first cloud-based virtual model of the human body and, in acquisition materials, as having delivered simulated human body models to businesses for over a decade in parallel with Anatomage's school-focused hardware.
BioDigital positions its platform as medically accurate and built only on HTML standards rather than a game engine, so visualizations run in any browser and can be embedded within any LMS or digital solution and accessed on desktop, mobile or in AR/VR. Accuracy is attributed to more than 12 years of model development based on surgical and gross dissection photographs, peer-reviewed anatomical atlases, cadaver dissections, diagnostic imaging and expert review. Other stated differentiators include the breadth of the content library, multilingual availability, non-developer authoring through Human Studio, built-in metadata that supports image SEO for publishers, and cost savings relative to stock imagery, video licensing and custom animation development.
Technology
The BioDigital Human is a cloud-based, fully embeddable platform rendered with HTML standards (built on CAD, HTML5 and WebGL foundations) rather than a game engine, allowing delivery through web browsers, iOS and Android apps, and AR/VR. The anatomical library comprises over 14,000 individual anatomical structures and more than 1,000 interactive 3D models covering over 600 health conditions and treatments, available in eight languages. Human Studio provides an authoring toolkit for custom models, guided tours, labels and images without developer involvement, and Quiz Builder supports interactive 3D assessments. Models can be embedded into learning management systems and other digital solutions, and content carries metadata that supports image search optimization.
Go-to-market
The company combines a free self-serve individual tier and free personal accounts with enterprise sales for organizations, which are routed through demo requests segmented by industry (academia, consumer health, digital health, education and training, medical device, pharma, provider) and by institution size or student count. Distribution also occurs through embedding and integration into customers' own sites, apps, curricula and learning management systems, and through integrations with educational platforms; a long-term strategy articulated at the time of its Series A was to expose APIs so outside developers could build on the imaging technology.
Medical and nursing schools, K-12 and higher education institutions, education and training companies and publishers, hospitals and providers using it at the point of care for patient communication, consumer and digital health publishers seeking engaging article and sponsored-content media, and pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies communicating treatments and mechanisms of action. Individual students, clinicians and consumers use free and premium personal plans.
Geography
BioDigital is headquartered in New York. Its cloud platform is used internationally, is available in eight languages, and the company states that companies worldwide rely on its virtual body platform and toolkits. Its acquirer, Anatomage, is based in Santa Clara, California.
History
The company traces its roots to a consulting business started in 2002 and was formally founded in 2013 in New York. Its browser-based virtual body product emerged publicly around 2012, and in September 2013 the company raised a $4 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital with the NYU Venture Fund and angel investors, at which point it reported more than 1 million members and use in over 2,500 schools. Anatomical model development spanned more than 12 years, and the library expanded over time to cover thousands of structures, hundreds of conditions, treatments, quizzes and authoring tools. In January 2025, BioDigital was acquired by Anatomage Inc., a Santa Clara, California medical education technology company known for the Anatomage Table virtual dissection table.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsAnatomage Inc., a medical education technology company based in Santa Clara, California, announced the acquisition of New York-based BioDigital, adding cloud-based biomedical visualization software to Anatomage's Table and Tablet hardware business and customer base.
BioDigital announced $4 million in Series A financing led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from the NYU Venture Fund and angel investors, to expand its team and complete an API for its browser-based 3D virtual body platform.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does BioDigital do?
- BioDigital runs the BioDigital Human, a cloud 3D platform for visualizing anatomy, disease and treatment; acquired by Anatomage in 2025.
- Who are BioDigital's investors?
- BioDigital's investors include FirstMark Capital, NYU Innovation Venture Fund.